In 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, as well as 2022, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” profiled U.S. Senator Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, who in 2010, had colorful campaign discussions that included pushing back against calls to increase the statute of limitations on sexual abuse in Wisconsin, leaving victims of abuses years ago unable to seek justice, labeling Social Security "a Ponzi scheme", saying that the 97% of climate change scientists who say the phenomenon is man-made were "crazy", the real cause of climate change was sunspots, and that Greenland is covered in snow and ice because we're actually witnessing "global cooling". In 2013 that Ron Johnson answered criticism from the League of Conservation Voters that he denied climate change by accusing them of waging “environmental jihad” and has compared politicians and activists trying to prevent climate change to Joseph Stalin, Hugo Chavez, and Fidel Castro.
Johnson also was against marriage equality, and was pro-life to the extent where he considers that life begins at conception (which means he's also against most forms of birth control). Johnson also showed quite a bit of hypocrisy, railing against the economic stimulus packages passed by Congress to help the American economy, that as it turned out, his business had accepted funding from. Or perhaps he showed a great deal of personal bias for attacking the Obama administration for trying to take BP Oil to task after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill for the environmental damage he caused, by categorizing it as "launching an assault on BP" and after some digging, the media found out that Ron Johnson had hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of stock in BP Oil, and he made the excuse of not selling it because he was waiting for the stock market to be better so he could get more money out of it.
And that was just what we discussed from BEFORE him reaching office in the 2010 Tea Party Wave in an upset victory over three-term Senator Russ Feingold. Since reaching office, Johnson has stayed to party lines in almost every obstructing vote in the Senate, voting against increasing the debt ceiling, the new version of the Violence Against Women Act (which he said was “unconstitutional”), and disaster relief for victims of Hurricane Sandy, just to name a few choice “blocks”.
Heck, he voted for the 2013 Government Shutdown and then voted to keep the government closed when the time came to end it. Inexplicably, he also tried fear-mongering to the fringe elements of the GOP prior to the 2014 elections during the outbreak of Ebola Virus in Africa, warning that ISIS might deliberately infect its own followers with the disease and send them to the United States to deliberately spread it (which is not a viable form of suicide attack, considering people afflicted with Ebola are far from mobile as their body starts getting wracked by the disease, and they have to get blood or feces on anyone they’re attacking without being noticed).
Sen. Johnson was one of the “47 Traitors” in the GOP who tried to meddle in the State Department’s negotiations with Iran, presented a photo of President Obama and President Rouhani shaking hands as proof they were “chummy” that was actually photo-shopped, and wasted time in a Senate hearing asking Secretary of State John Kerry and Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz questions about an “EMP Bomb” that doesn’t actually exist outside of movies. And speaking of movies, Johnson even went on record to rail against, of all things, The Lego Movie, because he felt the villain, Lord Business, was a demonization of rich corporations.
He has blamed a rise in mass shootings on the media for reporting them, paid tribute to the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia after his death by stupidly posting a picture of actor Edward Gero, (who starred in a play about Scalia), and his solution to help combat the prescription opioid drug abuse epidemic… bring back those “War on Drugs” ads where your brain was compared to an egg in a frying pan that did nothing to curtail even ordinary drug abuse in the 1980s.
Johnson compared his own hard battle for re-election in 2016 to the choice of passengers on Flight 93 on 9/11 to storm the cockpit. On the week of the election, unprompted, he decided to discuss impeaching Hillary Clinton. Who wasn’t president when he was already pitching the idea. I mean, counting your impeachment chickens before they’re hatched much, Ron?
Sen. Johnson voted for every unqualified member of Donald Trump’s “Cabinet of Horrors”, as well as voting for the confirmation of all three of his Supreme Court nominees. Ron Johnson, in late July of 2017, was saying he would vote against any attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, because Sen. Mitch McConnell and leadership in the Senate were being too secretive about what was actually in the bill, and that he would vote to block it from coming to the floor. Two days later, Johnson voted to repeal. Two days. That’s all it took to contradict himself. And how upset was Sen. Johnson that he couldn’t burn down the American healthcare system and whiz on the ashes? Enough so that he responded to the dramatic “no” vote by Senator John McCain by whining about how Sen. McCain’s “brain tumor may have factored in” to his vote.
We’ve covered before that Ron Johnson is a moronic conspiracy theorist, so current events in our country mean he’s really reveling in the moment, what with a conspiracy theorist at the White House. And what with Donald Trump and a lot of conservative “media” sources rambling on with paranoid delusions about a “Deep State” within the government sabotaging the Trump administration, that Sen. Johnson would join in the chorus on Fox News:
And… that was stupid enough that fellow GOP Congressman Charlie Dent all but accused Johnson of having brain damage.
We’re honestly thinking that’s not hyperbole. In April of 2018, Johnson started whining about supposed “unprecedented obstruction” about Democrats, and then literally, a minute later, started praising Mitch McConnell for leading the Senate GOP to block the nomination of Merrick Garland to the Supreme Court.
On the July 4th weekend in 2020, you may have seen a report about several Republican Senators and one member of the GOP House spending the celebration of American independence by going to Russia to meet with their foreign counterparts. Commentators and pundits thought that maybe the optics of going on a diplomatic visit to the country that meddled in the 2016 election on arguably its most patriotic holiday weren’t good. But, it was worse than that Three days later, Johnson suddenly was arguing against sanctions on Russia because “they aren’t working that well”. Three days. That’s all it took for Ron Johnson to flip on his on country.
Speaking of, Sen. Johnson gave lukewarm criticism when Donald Trump told four Democratic Congresswomen of color to “go back to where they came from”, but defended him against accusations that the attack was racist, saying that telling people to “love America or leave it” wasn’t racist in the 1960s. (Which isn’t what Trump said, mind you, and it has had racist connotations… but what do you expect from the dumbest man in the Senate?)
Ron Johnson spent the 2020 election season apparently volunteering his services to be a proxy for Russian intelligence, issuing Senate subpoenas to the FBI to have them come down to discuss their investigation of Donald Trump colluding with the Russians in 2016, and also that he’s still beating the dead horse of Hunter Biden’s work in Ukraine and knowingly admits he’s doing it to swing the outcome of the 2020 election.
Just… some of the timeline from the past year and a half or so:
- January 31st, 2020: Ron Johnson votes against witnesses being allowed in the impeachment trial of Donald Trump, effectively making it a “trial”.
- February 5th, 2020: Johnson votes against the first impeachment of Donald Trump, in spite of the mountain of evidence showing that he solicited foreign assistance in the 2020 elections.
- February 25th, 2020: Johnson votes for the Born-Alive Abortion Survivors Protection Act, an insane piece of anti-choice legislation that would ask abortion providers to try to admit aborted fetuses to a hospital if they were “alive” after the procedure, which is medically impossible.
- March 17th, 2020: Ron Johnson opines that citizens receiving a Covid-19 stimulus would “incentivize people to not show up for work”. Which, during a pandemic, if they could be incentivized to stay at home for non-essential jobs, that’s THE POINT, RON.
- July 22nd, 2020: Senator Johnson single-handedly blocks the advancement of a bill to celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday, deeming it “too expensive”.
- September 16th, 2020: Johnson uses his seat on the Senate Homeland Security Committee to try and launch an investigation into Hunter Biden to sabotage his father’s presidential campaign, and it’s so blatantly stupid that even fellow Republican Senator Mitt Romney calls him out for it.
- September 17th, 2020: Ron Johnson, declares that “Donald Trump is the most transparent president in American history”, which had fact checkers remind him Trump never released his tax records, his college transcripts, his medical records, his DNA to investigators looking to find out if he sexually assaulted women, he wouldn’t disclose the White House visitor logs, or that he actively would not reveal what was said in meetings with Vladimir Putin, and actively put recordings and transcripts of calls with foreign leaders on a highly classified server.
- November 10th, 2020: Johnson begins furthering “The Big Lie” that Joe Biden did not actually win the 2020 election, answering when asked if he congratulated Biden by saying, “There’s nothing to congratulate him about.”
- February 13th, 2021: Sen. Johnson votes to acquit Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial.
- February 16th, 2021: During a hearing on the January 6th attack, Ron Johnson claims that the Capitol attack “didn’t seem like an armed insurrection to me”.
- March 12th, 2021:Senator Johnson says that he in no way feared for his life on January 6th, but said that if there were Black Lives Matter protesters outside the Capitol, he would have feared for his safety.
- April 23rd, 2021: Johnson criticizes the Biden administration for their vaccination roll-out plan, not for its efficiency or lack thereof, just that it was happening, saying he sees “no reason” for the mass vaccinations to the public.
- May 8th, 2021: Ron Johnson disseminates misinformation about the Covid-19 vaccine in an interview on right-wing radio in Madison, saying that 3,000 people died from the vaccine in the first 30 days it was being used.
- June 12th, 2021: Ron Johnson is banned from Twitter for a week for spreading Covid-19 misinformation.
- June 19th, 2021: Senator Johnson singlehandedly blocked the passage of a bill to celebrate Juneteenth as a federal holiday in 2020. After it passed in 2021, he had the nerve to show up at a Juneteenth celebration like he’d helped pass it, and was booed until he left.
- July 19th, 2021: Johnson lies and says that the coup attempt at the Capitol was not that, and that the protesters were “peaceful”.
- August 25th, 2021: Sen. Johnson gets a rebuke from the FDA because twenty months into the Covid-19 pandemic, and eight months after a vaccine is available, he is still touting the use of ivermectin, or horse dewormer, as a valid treatment.
- October 18th, 2021: Ten months after Covid-19 vaccines are available to the public, Johnson goes on Fox News Sunday and claims they are “experimental”, and that the only reason ivermectin is not being recommended is because “there’s no money in it”.
- December 1st, 2021: On World AIDS Day, Ron Johnson claims that the Covid-19 pandemic is being “overhyped” just like the AIDS crisis was.
- December 7th, 2021: Johnson goes on Charlie Kirk’s radio show and claims that unvaccinated people are being “basically put in internment camps abroad”.
- December 9th, 2021: Ron Johnson falsely claims that it has been “proven” that the Covid-19 virus can be killed by using mouthwash.
- February 28th, 2022: Sen. Johnson tries to blame House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which doesn’t make any sense, but given his track record of defending the Russians, is not out of character for him to lie on their behalf.
- June 21st, 2022: Ron Johnson is revealed to have attempted to hand Vice President Mike Pence ballots full of fake electors in the midst of the attack on the Capitol on January 6th.
- June 22nd, 2022: Facing scrutiny after having revealed in his own aides’ texts the prior day to have participated in a seditious conspiracy, Johnson is obviously confronted by reporters in Washington, DC looking for answers. He tries to pretend he’s taking a phone call, but the reporter calls him out on the fact that his phone is off, and he still tries to keep up the ruse for another 30 seconds before denying any involvement. The dumbest man in the Senate, ladies and gents.
- July 27th, 2022: Ron Johnson votes against the PACT Act, blocking additional funding towards veterans exposed to “burn pits” while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, in a vote conducted out of spite that Democrats passed the Act the prior day. Several Republicans are seen shaking hands and fist bumping to celebrate screwing over the vets, while releasing a series of photos of the Senate GOP Caucus filling USO boxes and claiming they “support the military”.
- October 15th, 2022: Johnson is raucously booed for ignoring a question and refusing to say anything nice about his opponent, Mandela Barnes, in his Senate race, and in the same debate, is openly mocked and laughed at by the audience when he responds to Barnes mentioning the FBI were concerned he was “a Russian asset”, and that Johnson replies the FBI “set him up”. A day after his pathetic showing, Johnson went on Fox News to whine and claim the reason the debate crowd at Catholic Marquette University were so disgusted by him was because they’re “fed leftist propaganda”.
- January 15th, 2023: Sen. Johnson goes on Meet the Press with Chuck Todd, and of all the mediocre journalists to have him grilled by, CHUCK TODD manages to point out his hypocrisy that he’s worried about if Hunter Biden may have in some way profited from his father’s name (without evidence), but completely buries his head in the sand about Jared Kushner profiting from his father-in-law’s presidency (WITH evidence)
- June 12th, 2023: As Donald Trump faces federal indictment for illegally taking and possessing classified documents from the White House when he left office, Ron Johnson goes on Fox News and tells the outrageous lie that Trump protected Hillary Clinton from being sought after by the authorities, when he would literally call for her arrest on Twitter, and tried to get a Special Counsel to harass Clinton.
Ron Johnson pledged to not run for a third term in the Senate,but of course, reneged on that promise to the people, and regrettably, was narrowly sent back for a third term.
At this point, we’re going to remember and strongly hint Special Counsel Jack Smith that Sen. Johnson was trying to hand deliver a slate of fake electors into the hands of Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6th, 2021, and that it would be a real shame if this conspiracy-mongering fascist didn’t also get his day in court for his part in a coup attempt that put American democracy on the precipice of its end. A DAMN SHAME.
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Two Years Ago, August 18th, 2021: Ron Johnson (WI)… 2021 Update
Three Years Ago, August 18th, 2020: Ron Johnson (WI)… 2020 Update
Four Years Ago, August 18th, 2019: Ron Johnson (WI)… 2019 Update
Five Years Ago, August 18th, 2018: Ron Johnson (WI)… 2018 Update
Six Years Ago, August 18th, 2017: Ron Johnson (WI)… 2017 Update
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